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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
Michel de Montaigne
It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
Michel de Montaigne
I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
Michel de Montaigne
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
Michel de Montaigne
I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
Michel de Montaigne
Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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